IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cog/meanco/v9y2021i4p331-344.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

How Do Chinese Media Frame Arab Uprisings: A Content Analysis

Author

Listed:
  • Shiming Hu

    (School of Journalism and communication, Beijing Normal University, China)

  • Weipeng Hou

    (School of Journalism and communication, Beijing Normal University, China)

  • Jinghong Xu

    (School of Journalism and communication, Beijing Normal University, China)

Abstract

Employing content analysis, this study compares the coverage of the Arab uprisings by the People’s Daily (the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China) and Caixin Net (a typical commercial media) with statements from the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the last decade. It shows that the overall attention given to Arab uprisings in the People’s Daily and Caixin Net declined during the period, but there were shifts in the framing of the conflicts, presentation of issues, and positions. The article demonstrates and analyses how the approach and outline of the conflicts in the People’s Daily changed from disaster to criticism, and then to comparison—its position towards the events generally negative—and how Caixin Net moved from a disaster to a contextual framing of the events, its position tending to be neutral.

Suggested Citation

  • Shiming Hu & Weipeng Hou & Jinghong Xu, 2021. "How Do Chinese Media Frame Arab Uprisings: A Content Analysis," Media and Communication, Cogitatio Press, vol. 9(4), pages 331-344.
    • Handle: RePEc:cog:meanco:v9:y:2021:i:4:p:331-344
    DOI: 10.17645/mac.v9i4.4466
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/4466
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.17645/mac.v9i4.4466?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cog:meanco:v9:y:2021:i:4:p:331-344. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: António Vieira or IT Department (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cogitatiopress.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.